Folk activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day
1, outing
Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was also called exploring spring and seeking spring. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, the sun is shining, everything is reviving, and the earth is full of vitality. It is a good time to go for an outing. The custom of outing has a long history and was formed as early as the pre-Qin period. In the Song Dynasty, the wind of hiking was the most popular and passed down from generation to generation.
Step 2 eat eggs
The custom of eating eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of thousands of years. The ancients cooked eggs, duck eggs, bird eggs and other eggs and painted them in various colors, which were called "colored eggs". They threw these colorful eggs into the river and washed them down the river. People downstream scrambled for them, thinking that they could have children after eating them.
Later, people ate eggs in Tomb-Sweeping Day, symbolizing family reunion. There is also a folklore that Tomb-Sweeping Day eats eggs, and his health will be fine all year round, just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival and moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which are all holiday foods.
Step 3 eat hair cakes
During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people like to eat steamed cakes, which are made by grinding glutinous rice into rice slurry and steaming it. A lot of steamed cakes are delicious or not, but steamed or not, which is used to pin their good wishes of "getting rich" and "rising".
Step 4 eat green balls
Youth League is a snack in the south of the Yangtze River and the most festive food in Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a kind of wormwood that only existed before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day. It is a jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour and soup. Because jiaozi is bright green, it is named Youth League.
5. Children and in-laws send numbness to each other
In some places in Zhejiang province, the custom of sending hemp chips to each other by children and relatives is still preserved. In ancient times, after men and women got married, it often took a long time to get married formally, also for the convenience of mutual inspection. After all, getting married is a great event in life. It is a kind of etiquette before marriage that children and parents-in-law send hemp chips to each other. The man usually sends hemp chips to the woman in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, indicating that the next Tomb-Sweeping Day is coming to marry his new wife. After the daughter gets married, the parents of the woman's family will send a snack to the man's family in front of Tomb-Sweeping Day, which means wishing the young couple a happy life, My Sweetie and happiness.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's health tips
Qi deficiency type
Physical characteristics: pale face, muscle weakness, frequent spontaneous sweating, especially when moving, shortness of breath, laziness and fatigue. Students and people who have been engaged in mental work for a long time are prone to qi deficiency.
Recommended exercise: You can take part in exercises such as Tai Ji Chuan.
Dietary attention: products that strengthen the spleen, eliminate dampness and nourish vitality, such as Codonopsis pilosula, Astragalus membranaceus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae and Glycyrrhiza uralensis.
Selection of medicinal diet: Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus porridge (Codonopsis pilosula 10g, Astragalus membranaceus 15g, rice 100g. Wash Radix Codonopsis and Radix Astragali, soak in appropriate amount of water for 30 minutes, and then simmer for 40 minutes. After removing the traditional Chinese medicine, add rice and cook it into porridge. Stewed black-bone chicken with Cordyceps and Astragalus (half black-bone chicken, 3-5g Cordyceps and 30g Astragalus). Hair and viscera of black-bone chicken are removed, blood is removed in a boiling water pot, and then the black-bone chicken is put into a casserole, and Cordyceps sinensis, Radix Astragali and ginger slices are added, and seasoning is added when the chicken is cooked.
Blood deficiency type
Physical characteristics: pale, dull or sallow complexion, pale labial nail, weak pulse, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia and forgetfulness.
Recommended sports: jogging, walking, playing badminton, Tai Ji Chuan, etc. Keep warm, preferably with a slight sweat.
Dietary attention: Fish glue, wood frog, rose, donkey-hide gelatin, jujube, angelica, medlar, prepared rehmannia root and Polygonum multiflorum can be supplemented appropriately.
Selection of medicinal diet: fish glue and jujube porridge (fish glue 15g, jujube 10, and appropriate amount of rock sugar). Soak the fish glue in clear water to soften it, then wash it, cut it into filaments, and put it in a stew pot to stew with red dates and rock sugar for 2 hours. ) It is especially good for people with insufficient blood, mental fatigue, dull skin and wrinkled face.
Yin deficiency type
Physical characteristics: thin body, dry skin, prone to wrinkles, long dark circles, irritable personality, easy to dry throat, thirst, dry eyes, insomnia and dreaminess, flushed cheeks, dry cough, less phlegm and so on. More common in people who like to eat barbecue, fried or like alcohol and tobacco.
Recommended exercise: Go out for an outing and adjust your mood by playing chess and fishing.
Dietary attention: Yin deficiency is easy to get angry. It is recommended to eat American ginseng, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, lily and chrysanthemum to nourish yin and moisten dryness.
Selection of medicinal diet: stewed old duck with American ginseng and Dendrobium (American ginseng 10g, Dendrobium 6g. First, wash the old duck, control the water, put it in a pot with American ginseng and Dendrobium, add about 500 ml of water, boil it with strong fire, and then slow fire 1 hour.
Yang deficiency type
Physical characteristics: white skin, fat body, soft muscles, cold limbs, sore waist and knees, easy hair loss, weak bones and muscles, unhealthy, etc. Long-term partial consumption of cold food can also form yang deficiency constitution.
Recommended sports: jogging, dynamic ball games, etc. You can ward off evil spirits and invade.
Dietary attention: people who regulate yang deficiency need to warm up, but also need to take into account the spleen and stomach to enhance resistance. They can eat ginseng, Cordyceps sinensis, walnut kernel, velvet antler, Euryale euryales, yam, Eucommia ulmoides and Coix seed.
Selection of medicated diet: yam and coix seed porridge (yam, coix seed, gordon euryales each 10g, japonica rice 10g. Soak Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Semen Euryales in water, remove impurities and wash. Put japonica rice, yam, coix seed and gordon euryales into a pot and cook together to make porridge, which has the effects of strengthening the spleen, infiltrating dampness and nourishing the lungs and kidneys.
Liver depression type
Physical characteristics: yellow skin, big round face, small hands and feet, but rich shoulders and backs. The abdomen is bigger, the thighs are strong from jumping to gaskin, and the muscles of the whole body are plump and symmetrical.
Recommended sports: jogging, basketball, badminton, table tennis and other ball games, with no fatigue as the degree, should not sweat too much.
Dietary attention: Eat more food such as Coix seed, radish and yam, as well as citrus, bergamot and radish, and eat less sweets and sugar, and avoid spicy, hot, alcoholic and greasy products.
Selection of medicinal diet: Gan Song porridge (5g in Gan Song, japonica rice 100g). Decocting Gan Song in water, decocting, removing residues, and collecting juice for later use; Boil the japonica rice porridge, and add Gan Song juice when the porridge is cooked.
Tomb-Sweeping Day health recipe
Home-cooked cock
【 Ingredients 】 250g of tender cock, 75g of celery, 20g of winter bamboo shoots10g, 20g of pepper, 30g of thin soup, and appropriate amounts of ginger, bean paste, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, salt, starch, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.
[Practice] Cut the chicken into small pieces, blanch it with clear water and take it out for later use; Shred celery, cut winter bamboo shoots into thin strips, chop peppers, remove the tail of ginger, adjust starch into wet powder, put half of it in the same bowl, and mix well with soy sauce, cooking wine, vinegar and salt; The other half of wet starch is mixed with white sugar, monosodium glutamate and broth to powder for later use.
Heat the vegetable oil in the pot, stir-fry the chicken pieces until the chicken turns white and the water is dried, and add winter bamboo shoots, bean paste, ginger, etc. Stir-fry with high fire until it is 90% cooked. Add the chopped celery, stir-fry for a while, pour in the prepared starch paste and stir-fry until cooked. Serve.
【 Efficacy 】 Warming the middle energizer to tonify deficiency, lowering blood pressure and calming the nerves. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, nutritional supplement and postoperative recovery.
Mushroom cabbage
[Ingredients] 250g of Chinese cabbage, 3g of dried Tricholoma, soy sauce, sugar, refined salt, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.
[Practice] Wash the cabbage and cut it into 3 cm sections, and soak the mushrooms in warm water. After heating the oil in the pot, stir-fry the cabbage until it is 70% cooked, then put the mushrooms, soy sauce, sugar and salt in the pot, stir until it is cooked, then add monosodium glutamate and stir well.
【 Efficacy 】 Clearing away heat and relieving annoyance, benefiting stomach qi and reducing blood fat. It is suitable for patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and gingival bleeding.
Chicken soup fish roll
【 Ingredients 】 Fresh carp 250g, lean pork 30g, egg white peas 10g, ham 8g, appropriate amount of winter bamboo shoots, chicken soup, cooking wine, soy sauce, salt, starch and monosodium glutamate.
【 Practice 】 The ham is steamed and shredded, the winter bamboo shoots are shredded, the ginger and lean meat are chopped into powder, the starch water is mixed into wet powder, the live fish is conventionally treated, the bone spurs are removed and cut into rectangular small fish fillets.
Add soy sauce, half egg white, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, Jiang Mo and half wet starch to minced meat, stir to make stuffing, and mix the remaining egg white and wet starch into paste. Put the fish flat on the chopping board, first put a layer of paste on it, then put the meat stuffing on it, roll up the fish fillet, and then put a little paste on it to stick the fish roll. Replace the chicken soup with a small fire, not a big fire. Put the rolled fish roll in the pot for a while, and remove the floating foam to cool the soup. After the fish roll is cooked, add the chopped ham, winter bamboo shoots and other seasonings into the soup and boil it.
【 Efficacy 】 Nourishing yin and moistening dryness, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. It is suitable for hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, chronic nephritis and dyspepsia.